Disaster Red Cross Warns of National Blood Crisis - "Worst shortage in over a decade"

Red Cross Warns of National Blood Crisis

The American Red Cross warned this week that it's facing a “national blood crisis.”

humanevents.com

The American Red Cross warned this week that it’s facing a “national blood crisis.”

The organization, which gives 40 percent of the nation’s blood supply, said its “worst blood shortage in over a decade” is “posing a concerning risk to patient care” and that doctors have been “forced to make difficult decisions about who receives blood transfusions and who will need to wait until more products become available.”

“Blood and platelet donations are critically needed to help prevent further delays in vital medical treatments,” the statement continued.

The factors contributing to the crisis include a 10 percent decline in overall donation turnout since March 2020; a 62 percent drop in college and high school blood drives due to the pandemic; ongoing blood drive cancellations because of illness, staffing limitations and inclement weather; and a spike in COVID-19 and flu cases that “may compound the already bad situation,” Fox News reports.

“At a time when many businesses and organizations across the country are experiencing pandemic challenges, the Red Cross is no different. We are all learning how to live in this new environment, how we spend our time, where we work, how we give back, how we make a difference in the lives of others – donating blood must continue to be a part of it,” the Red Cross wrote.

“While some types of medical care can wait, others can’t,” Dr. Pampee Young, chief medical officer of the Red Cross, said in a statement. “Hospitals are still seeing accident victims, cancer patients, those with blood disorders like sickle cell disease, and individuals who are seriously ill who all need blood transfusions to live even as omicron cases surge across the country. We’re doing everything we can to increase blood donations to ensure every patient can receive medical treatments without delay, but we cannot do it without more donors. We need the help of the American people.”

The organization said that there has been less than a one-day supply of critical blood types over the last few weeks.

 

[дядя Боря]

Red Cross actually sells blood to hospitals and Red Cross mgt makes pretty damned good money for a so called non-profit. May be pay for blood donations and not try maintain an image like it's a real fucking charity?

 

[Kheapathic]

Novel idea, anytime there's violence in a diverse utopia, let them bleed out.

 

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

The Red Cross, just like Doctors Without Borders, works for the Antichrist and I hope every single one of them pay with eternal damnation in hell for their vile corruption of charity and philanthropy. If you want to help those in need you should work for local organizations and don't even think of getting near these global ones. A quick search will tell you how despicably corrupt they are.

 

[Troonos]

Nice, that'll give hospitals an excuse to deprive sickle cell chimps of transfusions. You'll never meet a more exploitative, entitled population than SSD nogs. More than half that I admit to inpatient have intentionally dehydrated themselves for a week to trigger a crisis and get admitted for free round-the-clock Dilaudid. Fuck 'em.

 

[MarkofdaBOOG]

Maybe if all the homeless people could stop shooting up and getting Hiv and Hepatitis C there would be more plasma flowing. I know normal people don't typically sell blood lol.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

Stop quivering your little princess pussies about the Chink flu, then.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Many hospitals have a policy of asking the family to donate blood before patient leaves. Down here, is mandatory if the person has received blood. Otherwise, you don't get your release papers.

 

[LurkTrawl]

With how many people are on various drugs nowadays I'm not so sure that it's a bad thing that they have fewer donations.

Imagine getting a blood transfusion from a guy who had snorted Adderall a half-hour before donating blood.

 

[Foxxo]

It's almost like everything is affected by California preventing unvaccinated drivers from entering their state.

Red States BTFO

 

[drfuzzyballs]

Maybe I would be more inclined to donate if they didn't ask about my "gender identity".

 

[Meat Target]

We all know they're vampires and drink the product.

 

[likeacrackado]

I struggle to give a shit. If somebody I know needs blood I'll glady give it to them, but donating to a company that then sells my blood isn't desirable.

 

[Chandelier]

It's almost like everything is affected by California preventing unvaccinated drivers from entering their state.

Red States BTFO

Which is hilarious because illegal immigrants aren't required to get it and they get preferential, free healthcare.

Can't wait for that state to sink into the sea.

 

[WonderWino]

Many hospitals have a policy of asking the family to donate blood before patient leaves. Down here, is mandatory if the person has received blood. Otherwise, you don't get your release papers.

I have to ask where here is, cause I can't think of many places where trying to refuse to let someone out of a hospital without donating blood would end well for the hospital. I mean what are they going to do, have security drag a patient back to their room and forcibly stick a needle in them? In every country I can think of the patient would end up a multimillionaire from the lawsuit that would provoke. Asking is one thing, trying to legit force any medical procedure of any kind on someone, legal issues aside is at the bare minimum a serious violation of medical ethics

 

[Potatoherder]

Many hospitals have a policy of asking the family to donate blood before patient leaves. Down here, is mandatory if the person has received blood. Otherwise, you don't get your release papers.

I question the legality of holding someone hostage over that. Hospitals around here would remove the cost of blood from the bill if the family donated 150% back. My grandma had heart surgery in the mid 90s and everyone did their part. After they stopped that program many people just stopped donating. There are so many cash for plasma/blood places it's hard to justify giving it away for free.

 

[дядя Боря]

trying to legit force any medical procedure of any kind on someone, legal issues aside is at the bare minimum a serious violation of medical ethics

yeah, these last couple of years we had this Covid "pandemic" where .gov to .mil to private companies are forcing experimental gene theraphy shit unto people at the threat of financial ruin ... yeah, you need to catch up on things today, seems like suing people isn't like it used to be a decade ago.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Dr. Pampee Young

I'm not sure about believing anyone, let alone a doctor, with the name Pampee, it evokes an image of Pamperchu which is a Do Not Want in my book.

 

[Getting tard comed]

Was it the Red Cross or someone else that said they wouldn't/couldn't accept blood of vaxxed people? Or was that just a conspiracy theory that never happened?

If true, the shortages are just beginning.

 

[Penis Drager]

just a conspiracy theory that never happened?

That one.